Ferraro quits & George Mason doesn’t remember the Alamodome

It must be great to have a politician’s mind. You can say anything you want, regardless of how people perceive it. And then, when the inevitable fallout occurs, you can claim everyone is out to get you.

Former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, who has been on an express elevator to obscurity for 20 years, knows a little something about being used for a dog-and-pony show. Ferraro admits that she was placed on the 1984 Democratic ticket simply for show. And that’s her claim to fame.

These days, Ferraro seems like the redneck who shows up at a school board meeting in February and wonders aloud why there’s no “white history month,” then can’t understand why that would be perceived as “bad.”

Paranoid to the end

On Wednesday, she paid the price for projecting her political failures onto Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign. She quit her post in the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, days after saying the press was unfair to Clinton, favored Obama, and then, the coup de grace: anyone who criticized her was being a racist. Of course, on the way out, she blamed the Obama campaign for the world’s reaction to her comments. (sigh)

My team won the conference title & all I got was a shirt with the wrong dome

George Mason University’s athletic department printed up spiffy t-shirts honoring the school’s Colonial Athletic League basketball title. Trouble is, the shirts show the Superdome in New Orleans, not the Alamodome, where this year’s NCAA Final Four will be played.

Or maybe not. It is the New York Times, after all. If this is really her, I like the first line of her “About Me” section: ” I am all about my music, and my music is all about me…” Yeah, right. Normally, you’d have to pay $4,300 for insight like that.

The Taliban, a homicidal, institutional version of the old fashioned dad, won its argument with Afghanistan’s wireless companies. After threats and a wave of bombings, the companies have agreed to shut off their phone networks after 5 p.m. As Americans, we should abuse our “free, unlimited, night-and-weekend minutes” or the terrorists will have already won.